Who's in the Office? The American Workday in One Graph

Do 9-5 jobs with paid lunch exist?<p>Everything I&#x27;ve seen is either 8-5 or 9-6 or some variation of that. Heck, where I am now is 9 hour days plus they encourage you to take lunch, 7-5. Half-day Friday though.

I expected to see more night owls in the &quot;Computer and mathematical&quot; category, but it looks like we&#x27;re more conventional than the average.

I&#x27;d be interested in seeing a weekday version of this data.<p>Realtors, car sales, etc, all work weekends. In tech, what about weekend maintenance windows?<p>Admittedly, that&#x27;s probably less of a thing now we have redundancy and continuous deployment practises; the concept of a late night &#x2F; weekend change window is diminishing in my personal experience. I&#x27;m intrigued if that&#x27;s true across the tech industry.

Weird, I came to work once at Twitter at 9am and I was the only one in sight on the whole floor.

A couple of things that one would guess, but are neat none the less: Food prep is the only one without a dip during the lunch hour (they are preparing what everyone else is eating). Also, protective services has the fattest tails (most late shift workers).

Doctors match average the best? Am I reading that right?<p>Legal skips lunches the most. Engineers are most likely to be in office at peak hours along with legal and finance.

Great graph, though I was a bit confused by the categories - I ended up picking &quot;Computer and mathematical&quot;, which seemed to be a strange way to describe what I do (but hey, I&#x27;m not American either).

Interesting data, reminds me of that thread a few months ago about work start times by city; I expected a bit more variation on some of the industries here, but I guess most of them are large categories.

Why is there a peak at 3 am for legal? It looks like an statistical error to me, unless it has something to do with conference calls and people starting their workday in Europe.

if you take one of this graph for the east coast and overlay it with another one 3 hours shifted for the west coast, you get the traffic graph for pretty much every US news site. thats why the founder of buzzfeed calls it the &quot;bored at work network&quot;.

hmm. &quot;computer&quot; is grouped with &quot;mathematical&quot; jobs. And these people are less likely to come in early and less likely to stay late. Seems reasonable...